569: A.I. For Crushing Humans at Poker and Board Games

26/04/2022 44 min
569: A.I. For Crushing Humans at Poker and Board Games

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Episode Synopsis

Research Scientist at Meta AI, Dr. Noam Brown, joins Jon Krohn to discuss his award-winning no-limit poker-playing algorithms and the real-world implications of his game-playing A.I. breakthroughs.

In this episode you will learn:

What Meta A.I. is and how it fits into Meta, the company [3:01]

Noam's award-winning no-limit poker-playing algorithms, Libratus and Pluribus algorithms. [4:33]

What game theory is and how does Noam integrate it into his models? [8:45]

The real-world implications of Noam’s game-playing A.I. breakthroughs [25:24]

Why Noam elected to become a researcher at a big tech firm instead of in academia [27:06]

The main barriers to getting AI game theory techniques beyond games to self-driving cars [30:16]

Recommendations for people who want to break into poker AI [37:45]


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